A HINT TO HELP THE PENNY POST.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
SIR—As a means to facilitate the operation of the New Postage Act, allow me, through the medium of your columns, to suggest that every person in- terested in the success of the measure should have an opening or box made in his door similar to that used by merchants for the deposit of bills of exchange left for acceptance. As the time consumed in the delivery of letters, and consequent number of hands to be employed, are among the causes of expense, it seems to 1111' that the remedy I have pointed out is one calculated to abridge the labours of the post- man ; who, after rapping, will have only to drop the letters "prepaid" into the box, instead of waiting the convenience of some lazy footman. In a street of fifty houses, at each of which, perhaps, there is an average of half a minute's loss, the saving of time would be important ; and it is easy to extend the calculation throughout a district, and to estimate what might be gained by a general adoption of this rule.
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